What should advocates and activists keep in mind as they try to change the world in 2018? Plenty, as Jeanette Russell and I discussed on a recent episode of Blackbaud’s Raise + Engage podcast. Among many sexy topics, we covered: Preparing for...
New Epolitics.com contributor Brett Gerstein is the CEO of Fliptide, which helps organizations gain supporters and win campaigns through digital advertising. For those of you who may not have noticed, several weeks ago, Google introduced some pretty...
Download your own copy of this poster from ResistHere.org For a liberal American, one of the few political joys of Trump’s First One Hundred Days has been the chance to watch the resistance to him and his agenda take shape. In just over three...
Donald Trump is trying to change America. In the process, is he changing political Twitter? News coverage of the social media platform itself often focuses on its financial woes, but in the political and cultural worlds, it reigns supreme as a tool...
Republican lawmakers intent on dismantling Obamacare face some serious hurdles, among them their own constituents angry at the thought of losing coverage and the difficult balancing act party leaders have created for themselves. With the House...
Congressional town hall meetings under siege about healthcare? It could be 2009, but it’s not — and the Congressmembers in question are Republicans, not Democrats. Like their Left-leaning colleauges eight years ago, some Republicans are...
“She was warned…she was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.†That’s what Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday when the Senate censured Elizabeth Warren. Her crime: reading aloud a letter from Coretta Scott...
Donald Trump’s nomination of billionaire school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary does not sit right with many Americans. They’re not being shy about it, either: they’ve jammed the Capitol switchboard trying to...
First things first: Periscope may be just over a year old, but live-streaming video isn’t exactly new: I remember being at events broadcast via (now-defunct) Qik more than half a decade ago. And, we first explored the basics of using Periscope...
New contributor! Bryan Fratkin is a friend-of-e.politics and the founder of SparkInfluence. He recently noticed that Marco Rubio limits his constituents to small sips of water on the communications front, metaphorically speaking. At SparkInfluence...